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title: [The Van Pelt Report]: Electronic Edition
author: Robert Jan van
Pelt
sponsor: Rabbi Donald A. Tams Institute for Jewish Studies
extent: 773 pages
publication
statement
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Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections
and Services, Emory University
Atlanta, GA
540 Asbury Circle
Woodruff Library
Atlanta, GA 30322
©Emory University.
2003 http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/13p3qseries
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Transcribed from the trial documents into
HTML by Addison-Wesley, and translated into XML based on the
HTML and print editions by the Beck Center staff.
Van Pelt's report examines Irving's distortions about
Auschwitz, its gas chambers and incineration facilities, as well as
its role in the 'Final Solution of the Jewish
Problem.'
title: Holocaust Denial on Trial
source description
[The Van Pelt Report]
Robert Jan van Pelt
London
Davenport Lyons
Solicitors
1 Old Burlington Street
London W1X 2NL
[1999]
encoding description
project description
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Trial transcripts, expert witness documents and other material used in Irving vs. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt
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- Collection: Trial Documents
- subset: Defense Documents
- object: Expert Witness document
- Irving, David John Cawdell, 1938- --Trials, litigation, etc.
- Lipstadt, Deborah E.--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Penguin (Firm)--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Trials (Libel)--England--London.
- Holocaust denial literature--Great Britain.
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- 2003.
Converted text from html to xml; added the footnotes.
Beck Center staff encoder - 2004.
added header, summary, table of contents
Beck Center staff encoder - .